Author Patrick Bouwman explains how his book, Fundamentals of Process Control: Principles and Concepts, helps up-and-coming automation professionals build a solid foundation. What inspired you to ...

High-tech instrumentation and state-of-the-art modeling tools are helping power plant operators achieve best-in-class performance, meet pollution targets, and better predict failures. Calibration ...

The power generation industry is constantly evolving, with advanced technologies becoming more ubiquitous in power plants. Along with this evolution, instrumentation and control equipment continues to ...

Used to measure, display, record and control process variables such as pressure, temperature, flow, level, load, speed, distance or angle, process instruments can be as simple as direct reading ...

Developed by the International Society of Automation (ISA), the ISA-5 series of standards are essential for industries that rely on complex instrumentation and control systems, including chemical ...

Critical manufacturing and process control instrumentation is steadily gaining smarts, allowing companies to collect and analyze a smorgasbord of data at pivotal points in their operations, leading to ...

This publication provides specific recommendations on research reactor instrumentation and control systems and software important to safety, including instrumentation and control system architecture ...

Large industrial plants–such as those in the oil, gas, electricity, pharmaceutical, and food and beverage industries–rely on electronic instrumentation to provide accurate, stable measurements to ...

The automation of processes is aimed at making them more efficient by eliminating human error as well as making them more repeatable, ensuring product uniformity. To ...

Robust and accurate measurements and controls are important for industrial instrumentation and process control. Various industrial sensors such as RTD or thermocouples usually require input isolation, ...

How self-tuning can support an adaptive control strategy. How Model Reference Adaptive Control can improve adaptability. The different types of MRAC. A certain amount of flexibility is always good to ...